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bookmark_borderSeize The Day

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LYRICS
I’ve been to the edge
… and looked over
Trying to discover
… if it’s over
Please hear what I say
You can live to see the day

I’ve looked the Queen Of Spades in the eye
Trying to determine if we’ll die
Please hear what I say
You can live to see the day

The devil wanted to wrestle
Swear I didn’t want the hassle
When forced to do what I have to do
I’ll rise to
Please hear what I say
You can live to see the day
Seize the day!

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Rock
Chords: Em Am / C D Em / C D G
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album COVID-EO

bookmark_borderA Lifetime

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LYRICS
I’m my life measured in time
My lifetime
All the time that I’m
My lifetime
I’ve never experienced anything like this before
In my experience, thought nevermore
Not in my lifetime

The persistence of existence
My lifetime
Find the path of least resistance
In my lifetime

No, I’ve never seen anything like this before
Not in my lifetime
The mortal out-of-order… amiss
Not in my lifetime

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Rock
Chords: Em C / D Em / C D Em
Recording: 7-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Drums, Xylophone

From the album COVID-EO

bookmark_borderJust A Heartbeat Away

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LYRICS
Life’s just a heartbeat
Life’s just a heartbeat
Life’s just a heartbeat… away
These winds blow good things our way
Fill our sails toward a brighter day
… OK?
These smiles move us miles
Never fails
Never out of style
… we say…
Life’s just a heartbeat
Life’s just a heartbeat
Life’s just a heartbeat… away

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Rock
Chords: A Am7 A D7 Bm7 D7 / B7 G A
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar and Loop Pedal, Keyboards

From the album Ticking Away

bookmark_borderOut Our Window (Watch Our Hearts Grow)

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LYRICS
I’ve seen it all
My painted wall
Is slowly drying
Compassion swell
As we dwell
Instead of dying
You know
Looking out our window
There goes
Watching our hearts grow

Been here before
It’s time for more
Let’s make it stick
Pour on galore
It’s in your core
And make it quick
You know
Looking out our window
There goes
Watching our hearts grow

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: Eb Ab Bb / F Bb
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards, Guitar and Loop Pedal

From the album Testing

bookmark_borderTo The nth

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LYRICS
When you start to go to squared
Cubed
10th to the nth
Linear thinkers
And flat Earth seekers
Went to take a vote
On a sinking ship
Without a lifeboat
Holy $hit
History
Her story
This story

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: Em7(11) Dbaug; 100 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards

From the album Testing

bookmark_borderTake a Human for a Ride

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LYRICS
The city that doesn’t sleep, slept
As the corn beef on the corner wept
Alcatraz on lockdown
Watching the sun go down
Waiting for humanity to run
Now our time has come
Flow through the veins of the vain
Life’s blood and a stick in the mud
A spare rib from Adam’s side
Take a human for a ride
Maintain (ing) stride
Create a heartbeat and running feet
Run the message far and wide
We can turn the tide!
Toward the next sunrise
Run!
Realize the prize
Run!
Preach: It’s within reach

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: Bm7(11) Cm / Dm Am B; 80 to 97 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards

From the album Testing

bookmark_borderSelf-Quarantined

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LYRICS
I’m just sitting here wondering
What the whole world is doing
’cause from within here
It isn’t clear
If we’re still spinning?
(Haven’t found…
… if we’re turning round)

I’m just sitting here pondering
What the whole world is wondering
’cause from within here
It isn’t clear
If we’re still spinning?
(Haven’t found…
… if we’re turning round)

Am I just sitting here squandering
All the time I’ve been given?
’cause from within here
It isn’t clear
If we’re still spinning?
(Haven’t found…
… if we’re turning round)

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: C# F# / D B
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards, Guitar and Loop Pedal

From the album Testing

bookmark_borderThe Lockdown Blues

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LYRICS
Well, I’m lockdown in my lowdown
I’m lockdown, lockdown blue
Don’t know if I can take it…
If I can make it
… through
Whatcha gonna due/do?

This train doesn’t stop in Ardmore
Any more
As a matter of fact,
It’s off the track
Straight up locked down State Store
Can’t swallow life on the rocks any more
Thought I had beer for a fortnight
Sure didn’t count that right
Meltdown
Way down
I’m lockdown in my lowdown
I’m lockdown, lockdown blue
Don’t know if I can take it…
If I can make it
… through
Whatcha gonna due/do?

Doctor, Doctor!
All the doctors thick in sick
Can’t do nuthin’
No not a bit
To restore me…
Nor cure me
… of this hissy fit

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: E Blues
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards, Guitar and Loop Pedal

From the album Testing

bookmark_borderIs It Just Me?

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LYRICS
1, 2, 3
It it me…
Or is it easy as 1, 2, 3
Oh, pretty please
Don’t be a tease

So I plead
Give a read
My brain needs to feed
So pretty please
I’m begging on my knees

Come to know
Where to go
To satisfy my soul
Your soul is the goal
What a pity
If only to save me

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Rock
Chords: C Am Em / Am E
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar and Loop Pedal, Keyboards

From the album Ticking Away

bookmark_borderSound And Light Fight

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LYRICS
First strikes the bolt of lightning
Follows the crack of thunder
Doesn’t it make you wonder
If sound and light are fighting?

Am I fast enough
To pick up my stuff
And get out of the reign
Am I smart enough
To call the bluff
And get our of the reins
(The bridle of the Bible. Amen.)

Come into existence
At the same instant
Yet come to me at a different rate
I guess you had to separate
… from a seed into a plant
(chorus)

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: A C C A / A E7 E A / G7 C
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards, Guitar and Loop Pedal

From the album Testing

bookmark_borderHip

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LYRICS
Under from under the underbelly
Up past the uppity stiff upper lip
But, don’t go too far
Not past the fair
Right there
Know no
Come fiddle in the middle
In the groove
At the hip
Move
To the hip
Hip

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: Fm Am; 85 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards

From the album Testing

bookmark_borderLast Man underSTANDING

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LYRICS
All of civilized history
Flashed before my eyes
The rhetoric of irony
Comes as no surprise
The alarm of instant karma
For harm without concern
Same mistake… lesson learned
Too late to cry “mama”
As man threw $hit upon the fan
I shouted,
“Doesn’t anybody understand?!?!?”
All alone in a crowded home

The ref calls foul
“They’re not deaf”
But the mob rule rules
Am I the only one left
Overshadowed by fools
Last man understanding
Leaves me wondering
… leaves me wandering

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: Rock
Chords: Em7 / G F Em / C Em; 128 BPM
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards

From the album Ticking Away

bookmark_borderSlipping Sand

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LYRICS
Don’t let the sand slip through hourglass
In “The End” it’s up to you
How times pass
… into the past
In the balance, doom and gloom
Versus being prepared
If you’ve dared
Is your list at risk?
For sure, the future is present
… in our presence

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: F# F#7sus4 B B7 C#7
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards, Guitar and Loop Pedal

From the album Testing

bookmark_borderReally Weird

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LYRICS
Things are getting…
Things are getting really…
Things are getting really really…
Things are getting really really really really really really…
Weird

Going off half-baked
The Giant you arouse to awake
Startled, dazed, confused
Stampede we’ll concede
Battered, bruised
Hold close those endeared
’cause things are getting weird
… really, really
For some endeared
Are getting smeared
Tell me that ain’t really, really weird

In the thick of panic!
Brazen bizarre
You’ve gone too far
Woke the sleeping giant
In the thick of panic!
Causing a riot
Trampled underfoot
Civilization kaput

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: Em Em9 Dm Em / Ebm Em
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards, Guitar and Loop Pedal

From the album Testing

bookmark_borderMooned

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LYRICS
The moon was full
As it began to spill over
I began to discover
The insight of light upon a fool
Oh, no, please
It’s not really made of cheese
It will dawn upon you soon
There is no man in the moon

The moon was new
As darkness filled the night
I began to see the light
The insight in sight of “the knew”
(chorus)

The moon is rising
As it began to climb
I realized who I am
A servant’s wave rising
(chorus)

ABOUT THE SONG
Style: ExperiMental Rock
Chords: Fm Bbm / Db F7sus4 F
Recording: original take / live digital 1-track stereo
Instrumentation: Vocals, Keyboards, Guitar and Loop Pedal

From the album Testing